Kiara Hill
Kiara Hill is a Ph.D. candidate in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of African American Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she also received a graduate certificate in Public History from the Department of History. She received her B.A. in Mass Communications from Sacramento State University and her M.A. in Women’s Studies from the University of Alabama. Kiara’s dissertation explores the role of Black women cultural workers during the Black Arts Movement, and the Black arts institutions they founded and organized in the Northeastern United States. Kiara has worked on curatorial projects in the Pioneer Valley and has curated two exhibitions at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS: 5 Takes on African Art / 42 Flags by Fred Wilson and Speak to Me of Rivers: An Exploration of Race, Identity and Lived Experience in Contemporary African American Art.
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2019-06-10
CCL Announces 2019 CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar Students
The Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) is pleased to announce the sixteen art history doctoral students selected for the sixth annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice. Joining from fifteen universities—six of which are sending a student to the program for the first time—this year’s cohort addresses a wide range ... Read More >
2020-01-27
Adam H. Levine (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2019) Named Assistant Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario
Adam H. Levine (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2019) has been named Assistant Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Levine participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2019, and is a PhD candidate at Columbia University’s department of Art History and Archeology. Prior to this ... Read More >
2020-10-27
Clare Kobasa (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2019) Named Assistant Curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Clare Kobasa (CCL/Mellon Seminar 2019) has been named Assistant Curator at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Kobasa participated in the annual CCL/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice in 2019, and she holds a PhD from Columbia Univerisity. Most recently, Kobasa completed a two-year appointment as the Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the ... Read More >